1 Florence, Bibliteca Medicea Laurenziana Plut. 89 sup 86 Abbreviation: Florence, Plut. 89 sup 86 Contents: Liber Papiensis (Liber legis langobardorum) with incorporated Lombardic diagrams and glosses; placita Date: s. xi ex (from 1075 to 1100) Summary: A manuscript of relatively portable size, with numerous line-drawn initials with foliate and knot-work features and highlighting in red-ink. Transitions within the Liber Papiensis between laws and capitularies of different kings and emperors rubricated with incipits and excipits. While the mise-en-page is similar across the Liber Papiensis, the manuscript was originally produced as two parts (fols 2-89 comprising the Lombard laws and fols 90-139 the Frankish and Saxon Capitularies) copied by the same scribe that have been bound together into a single volume. The first part is finished with a collection of placita derived from the Lombard laws. The second part may originally have had slightly larger pages, as the extent of trimming of items in the margins is relatively greater. The second part ends abruptly, partway through the capitularies of Conrad on fol. 139v, l. 30 (see Boratius, ed., 1868, pp. lvii- lviii, 583). An additional, later folio at the start of the manuscript contains a musical text on the recto. Extent: i + 1 + 138 + i Origin: Italy Provenance: [unknown] Surrogates: Digital images freely available online: TECA Digitale, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, http://teca.bmlonline.it/ImageViewer/servlet/ImageViewer?idr=TECA0001057 100&keyworks=langobardorum#page/1/mode/1up MANUSCRIPT CONTENTS Item: 1 r Title: [music. additional folio] Text Language: Latin
This document is posted to help you gain knowledge. Please leave a comment to let me know what you think about it! Share it to your friends and learn new things together.
‘In Librum Legis Langobardorum Papiensem Dictum Praefatus Est', Alfred Boratius, in Monumenta
Germaniae Historica, Legum, IV ed. by George Henry Pertz (Hannover, 1868), pp. xlvi - xcviii (p.
lvii-lviii).
Monumenta Germaniae, Legum, II ed. by George Henry Pertz (Hannover, 1837)
Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Legum, IV ed. by George Henry Pertz (Hannover, 1868)
Radding, Charles, ‘Petre te appellat Martinus. Eleventh-century judicial procedure as seen through
the glosses of Walcausus’, in La Giustizia nell'Alto medioevo II (secoli IX-XI), XLIVa Settimana di
Studio sull'Alto Medioevo, Spoleto, 11-17 aprile 1996 (Spoleto, 1997), 827-61 (p. 828)
Radding, Charles and Antonio Ciaralli, The Corpus Iuris Civilis in the Middle Ages: Manuscripts and
Transmission or the Sixth Century to the Juristic Revival (Leiden, 2007), p. 90
8
APPENDIX A: QUIRE DIAGRAM
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 h f h f f h h f f h h f f h h f f h
Quire 1
10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 h f f h h f f h h f f h h f f h
Quire 2
18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 h f f h h f f h h f f h h f f h
Quire 3
26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 h f f h h f f h h f f h h f f h
Quire 4
34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 h f f h h f f h h f f h h f f h
Quire 5
42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 h f f h h f f h h f f h h f f h
Quire 6
9
50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 h f f h h f f h h f f h h f f h
Quire 7
58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 h f f h h f f h h f f h h f f h
Quire 8
66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 h f f h h f f h h f f h h f f h
Quire 9
74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 h f f h h f f h h f f h h f f h
Quire 10
82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 h f f h h f f h h f f h h f f h
Quire 11
90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 h f f h h f f h h f f h h f f h
Quire 12
98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 h f f h h f f h h f f h h f f h
Quire 13
10
106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 h f f h h f f h h f f h h f f h
Quire 14
114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 h f f h h f f h h f f h h f f h
Quire 15
122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 h f f h h f f h h f f h h f f h
Quire 16
130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 h f h f f h h f f h h f f h h f f h f h
Quire 17
11
APPENDIX B: RULING GRIDS
As some of the horizontal long lines of the text-block on each folio are extended across the spine as through-lines, each bifolia was ruled open
simultaneously. Ruling grids for the manuscript are therefore described by bifolium. The manuscript contains three main types of ruling grid: type A)
those with 30 horizontal long-lines and single vertical bounding lines (VBL) at the inner and outer edge of the text-block (Quires 1, & 15-16); type
B) with 29 long lines and single VBL (Quires 2-11 & 17); and type C) with 30 long lines and double VBL (Quires 12-14). Within these, many variants
can be observed, depending on which of the horizontal lines are extended to the outer margins to either edge and as through-lines across the spine of
the bifolium. The most common pattern of extending lines is for the first and final four lines of the text-block as well as a further four lines at some
point around the middle. In practice, each of these blocks may have as few as two lines extended or as many as seven, and the same lines are not
always extended symmetrically across a bifolium. Where I have been uncertain about any ruling lines at all, I have marked this with a ‘?’. Moreover,
some of the ruling lines are very faint, and some variations may have been identified due to difficult to observe lines not having been recorded. Grid
numbers are arranged as ‘A’, ‘B’ or ‘C’ following the main type, followed by a lowercase letter based on the number of through-lines, and with a
following lowercase letter if the lines extended to the outer margins varies from the through-lines, else a dash if they are identical. In total, there are
some 61 ruling grids (not including that on fol. 1 which was added to the manuscript later), distributed between the sixty-nine bifolia.